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Akta Badawczo-Dochodzeniowe Głównej Komisji Badania Zbrodni Hitlerowskich w Polsce (B.d.), 1945-1964 (Records of Investigation and Documentation of the Main Commission to Investigate Nazi Crimes in Poland (B.d)) RG-15.155M United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archive 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW Washington, DC 20024-2126 Tel. (202) 479-9717 Email: [email protected] Descriptive Summary Title: Akta Badawczo-Dochodzeniowe Głównej Komisji Badania Zbrodni Hitlerowskich w Polsce (B.d.) (Records of Investigation and Documentation of the Main Commission to Investigate Nazi Crimes in Poland (B.d)) Dates: 1945-1964 RG Number: RG-15.155M Accession Number: 2010.11 Extent: 59 microfilm reels (35 mm) Repository: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archive, 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW, Washington, DC 20024-2126 Languages: Polish, German, and Yiddish Administrative Information Restrictions on access: Researchers must complete and sign a User Declaration form before access is granted to materials from the Institute of National Remembrance (Instytut Pamięci Narodowej). Restrictions on reproduction and use: 1. Each researcher using the materials obtained from the Institute of National Remembrance (IPN) or materials whose originals belong to the IPN must complete the registration procedure required by USHMM. 2. Publication or reproduction of documents (in the original language, in facsimile form or in the form of a translation of an excerpt or of the entire document) or making them available to a 1 third party in any form requires the written consent of the Institute of National Remembrance. The use of an excerpt defined as the fair use right to quote does not require obtaining consent. 3. Researchers assume all responsibility for the use of materials that belong to the Institute of National Remembrance. 4. References to documents that belong to the Institute of National Remembrance must cite the Institute of National Remembrance as the owner of the original documents and include the full reference citation of the Institute of National Remembrance in the citations. Preferred bibliographic citation: Group reference, group name, extreme dates, archive name. The owner of the original documents (IPN, ref. XXXXX) Preferred footnote/endnote citation: Archive name, group reference, group name, extreme dates, information identifying the documents (original documents' reference; IPN, ref. XXXXX) Acquisition Information: Purchased from the Instytut Pamięci Narodowej-Komisja Ścigania Zbrodni przeciwko Narodowi Polskiemu, Poland. Forms part of the Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. This archive consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims against Germany. Accruals: Accruals may have been received since this collection was first processed, see the Archives catalog at collections.ushmm.org for further information. Custodial History Existence and location of originals: The original files and the copyright to them are held by the Institute of National Remembrance - Commission for the Prosecution of Crimes against the Polish Nation (Institute of National Remembrance), ul. Wotoska 7, Warsaw 02-675, Poland. Phone no. + 48 22 581 85 00. More information about this collection and other materials in the possession of the Institute of National Remembrance, including archival finding aids from the Archives of the Institute of National Remembrance, is available at their website: https://ipn.gov.pl Processing History: Aleksandra B. Borecka Related Materials Rejestr Miejsc i Faktów Zbrodni Popełnionych Przez Okupanta Hitlerowskiego na Ziemiach Polskich w Latach 1939-1945 : Województwo Lubelskie. Warszawa: Główna Komisja Badania Zbrodni Przeciwko Narodowi Polskiemu, Instytut Pamięci Narodowej, 1985. [USHMM Library, D802.P62 L8485 1985] Biographical Note The Institute of National Remembrance - Commission for the Prosecution of Crimes against the Polish Nation (IPN) was established by the Polish Parliament on December 18, 1998 with a special bill. The Institute is headed by the President whose post is independent of the state authorities. The President of the IPN is elected for a five-year term.The Institute started its activities on July 1, 2000. The 2 headquarters of the Institute of National Remembrance is located in Warsaw. There are also eleven Branch Offices of the IPN, established in the cities where Appellate Courts are located, and seven Delegations throughout Poland.The IPN is responsible for gathering, assessing, disclosing and custody of the documentation created between July 22, 1944 and December 31, 1989 by Polish security agencies. The documentation would also include records regarding the Communist, Nazi and other crimes committed against Polish citizens in the period from September 1, 1939 to December 31, 1989, as well as political repressions carried out by officials of the former Polish investigative and justice organs in that time. The documentation concerning the activities of the security organs is also the subject of interest of the IPN. Another major responsibility of the Institute is to investigate Communist and Nazi crimes as well as war crimes and crimes against humanity and peace. The IPN investigates crimes against people of Polish origin, as well as Polish citizens of other origin and other citizens who were harmed in the Polish territories. Scope and Content of Collection Contains investigation files on crimes committed by Nazi criminals in the concentration camps in Poland and Germany, as well as in ghettos, towns, and villages in Poland. System of Arrangement Arranged by case numbers and last names. Records are arranged in the original order of their acquisition from the source archive. The museum has acquired only selected records from Institute of National Remembrance (Instytut Pamięci Narodowej- Komisja Ścigania Zbrodni przeciwko Narodowi Polskiemu, or IPN). More information about this collection and other materials in the possession of the Institute of National Remembrance, including archival finding aids from the Archives of the Institute of National Remembrance, is available at the website: https://ipn.gov.pl Indexing Terms HASAG Czestochowianka (Concentration camp) Ravensbrück (Concentration camp) Stutthof (Concentration camp) Gross-Rosen (Concentration camp) Sachsenhausen (Concentration camp) Mauthausen (Concentration camp) Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Dachau (Concentration camp) Concentration camp inmates--Registers. War criminals--Europe--History--20th century. Criminal justice, Administration of. World War, 1939-1945—Atrocities--Investigations. War criminals--Germany. War criminals--Poland. War victims--Legal status, laws, etc.--Poland. Polish people--Nazi persecution--Sources. 3 Jewish people--Nazi persecution--Sources. Human experimentation in medicine--Poland--History--20th century. Germanization--Poland. World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Polish. World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Russian. World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Italian. World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Jewish. Executions and executioners--Poland. Łobżenica (Poland) Testimonies. Photographs. Registers. CONTAINER LIST Reel File Description 1 1 The files concern WIESE Hermann Ernst – suspected, that in years 1939-1945, as a Gestapo head officer on the territory of Pionki and Tomaszów Mazowiecki conducted displacement of the Polish and Jewish inhabitants from Tomaszów /call No Bd 4/161 cards + 7 loose sheets. 2 The files concern MICHALSKI Georg alias KOWALSKI, deputy of Amon Goethe and manager of transports from Częstochowa to Oświęcim and Buchenwald, suspected of participation in executions on prisoners of LK Płaszów (call No BD 6/34 cards. 3 The files concern von GIENAT Kurt – chief officer of “Oberkomando-Ost” seated in Spała, then Militarbefehlhalter in General Government, the files include testimonies referring to his activity on the territory of General Government during occupation. (no further data).The files concern THIER Theobald – SS Brigadenfuehrer und Generalmajor der Polizei, SS Polizeifuehrer of Galicia district and Krakow district, suspected of giving order to kill ten Polish citizens/call No Bd7/28 cards + 7 loose sheets 4 The files concern KURTZER alias KURZER – SS Aufsieherin in KL Ravensbrueck in 1944-1945, suspected of acting against the women prisoners of Polish origin and others – persecutions, murder with his own hands – there are testimonies of eye witnesses /call No Bd 8/ 32 cards. 4 The files concern WIECZOREK alias WYCIOREK Józef – manager 5 of the political department of KL Brzezinka, suspected of participation in execution, persecuting of the prisoners – there are testimonies of eye witnesses / call No Bd 12/21 cards. The files concern LOSACKER Ludwig suspected to take part in 6 mass extermination of the Polish and Jewish people in Jasło, Lublin and Krakow /call No Bd 13/ 184 cards. The files concern H. GOERING-WERKE contain documents 7 referring to the condition of work in H. GOERING-WERKE seated in Starachowice, Stalowa Wola and Ostrowiec in years 1939-1945. The files contain list of names of people working in these factories, who were suspected of activity aiming to entire destruction of the plant in Ostrowiec and transfer of all machinery and equipment to Reich/call No Bd15/104 cards. The files concern STRĄCICKI Wasyl – the mayor of Mosty 8 Wielkie /Ukraine/ accused of organization of pogroms of the Jewish